External Resouces

Getting Started

This will take you to the Handshake Insights landing page where you can start to explore your data

We call each collection of data an “explore”. You can see above examples of these explores, Students, Interview Schedules, Jobs, etc.

Within each of these explores there are a variety of linked views containing different data attached to the base explore. For example within the Students explore you will see a view of the number of work experiences or documents a student has uploaded

Within each view there are “dimensions” and “measures” which are described below

Within each dimension and measure there are “filters” and “pivots” which are also described below

Dimensions- What data do I want? Dimensions are the column descriptors of your table.

Measures - What do I want to do with my data. Measures are the math on top of your data.

Filters - How do I get the right data? Choosing the data that you are interested in.

Pivots - What if I have 2 questions? Pivoting enables dimensions to be displayed horizontally.

Best Practices

Run only one explore at a time

Start small and simple and work your way up to more complicated explores

The best explores are those that return within a few seconds, if it takes longer than that you should try removing fields and starting simpler

Tips

More filters = less data

All data can be downloaded to excel, if you can’t do something in insights you can always download and transform there

Location searches - Filter on Lat_long and use syntax of: "100 miles from 41.8781136, -87.6297982"

Institution Labels are the labels created/apply to that item by your school.